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The first Komsomol members made leather jackets fashionable, and the NEP era and avant-garde art ushered in stylish hats and dresses. At the height of Stalinism, when collectivization and industrialization were sweeping the USSR, women were expected, above all, to be useful members of society. You won't see many fashionistas in old photos of this time — they were condemned as carriers of harmful capitalist values. World War II recalibrated the way that Russian women looked and dressed. Many dressed in military uniform. Only long-awaited Victory on May 9, , allowed people to relax — simple pleasures, such as walking and sunbathing by the sea, were caught on camera.

Despite the fact that rural areas make up a large part of Russia's six and a half million square miles territory, small village communities often remain unseen. Most people move to big cities in search of work and better perspectives, and villages, deprived of infrastructure and state funding, are left to steady decline. At the same time, life there doesn't stop.

Help us continue to fight human rights abuses. Please give now to support our work. A transgender woman in St. Petersburg, Russia has won a final court battle with a former employer who fired her in after she changed her legal gender. In , she was legally recognized as a woman, and then fired.